2008 New Hampshire Presidential Primary Endorsements by NH State Legislators
As of May 2, 2007: House has 397 Representatives and 3 vacancies - 214 D and 22 D and R = 236; 146 R and 14 R and D = 160; 1 I = 1.  Senate has 14 D and 10 R.
 Updated Dec. 27, 2007. (Endorsements as reported by the campaigns; dates show when endorsement first announced or reported).   Republicans >>
 
D E M O C R A T S
BIDEN...8
Rep. Jim Ryan (Franklin) 06/05/07 
House Floor Leader and Assistant Majority Leader Dan Eaton (Stoddard)  12/06/07
Rep. Robert Haley (Manchester) 06/20/07
Rep. Bill Hatch (Gorham) 08/02/07 
Rep. Mike Marsh (Greenland) 07/02/07 
Rep. Mark Preston (Seabrook) 06/20/07 
Rep. Steve Shurleff (Penacook) 07/25/07 
Rep. Jim Webber (Kensington) 08/21/07
 

CLINTON...58 (8 Senators/50 Representatives)
Senate President Sylvia Larsen (Concord)   05/15/07
Sen. Lou D'Allesandro (Manchester)  11/02/07
Sen. Betsi DeVries (Manchester)   04/23/07
Sen. Iris Estabrook (Durham) 10/09/07
Sen. Maggie Wood Hassan (Exeter)  09/17/07
Sen. Molly Kelly (Keene)   06/28/07
Sen. Deb Reynolds (Plymouth)   05/23/07
Sen. Kathy Sgambati (Tilton)   09/17/07 

Speaker of the House Terie Norelli (Portsmouth)   08/01/07
Majority Leader Mary Jane Wallner (Concord)   03/05/07 
Assistant House Majority Leader Bette Lasky (Nashua)  03/20/07 

Rep. Peter H. Allen (Harrisville) 
Rep. Susan Beauchesne (Allenstown)   06/23/07 
Rep. Catriona Beck (Bennington)   04/19/07 
Rep. Bernie Benn (Hanover)   06/21/07
Rep. Roger Berube (Somersworth)   06/28/07 
Rep. Thomas Buco (Conway)  11/05/07
Rep. Delmar Burridge (Keene)   04/05/07 
Rep. Jane Clemons (Nashua)   04/05/07
Rep. David Cote (Nashua)   04/05/07 
Rep. Peter Cote (Nashua) 

Rep. James Cyr (Strafford)  04/19/07 
Rep. John DeJoie (Concord) 
Rep. Carol Estes (Plymouth) 
Rep. Tom Fargo (Dover)   06/28/07
Rep. Carol Friedrich (Wentworth)   04/05/07 
Rep. Raymond Gagnon (Claremont) 
Rep. Anne Grassie (Rochester)  06/28/07
Rep. Paul Hackel (Nashua)   week of 07/23-27/07
Rep. Jill Shaffer Hammond (Peterborough)   04/05/07 
Rep. Roger Hebert (Manchester) 

Rep. Roland Hofemann (Dover) 
Rep. Doreen Howard (Newmarket) 
Rep. Jean Jeudy (Manchester) 
Rep. Steve Johnson (Manchester) 
Rep. Eleanor Kjellman (Henniker)   04/19/07 
Rep. Angeline Kopka (Nashua)   04/05/07
Rep. Gus Lerandeau (Keene)   04/05/07
Rep. Melanie Levesque (Brookline) 
Rep. Anthony Matarazzo (Nashua)   04/05/07 
Rep. Tom McGuirck (Hampton)   06/28/07

Rep. Martha McLeod (Franconia)   03/14/07
Rep. Ricia McMahon (North Sutton) 
Rep. Edgar Mears (Berlin) 
Rep. Lori Movsesian (Nashua)  04/19/07
Rep. David Pierce (Etna)   week of 04/23-27/07
Rep. Michael Reuschel (Manchester) 
Rep. Deanna Rollo (Rollinsford) 
Rep. Michael Rollo (Rollinsford) 
Rep. Trinka Russell (Stratham)   04/05/07 
Rep. Barbara Shaw (Manchester)  04/19/07 

Rep. Jim Splaine (Portsmouth) 
Rep. Mary Sysyn (Manchester)   04/19/07
Rep. Hector Velez (Manchester) 
Rep. Janet Wall (Madbury)   04/19/07 **
Rep. Mary Jane Wallner (Concord) 
Rep. Deborah Wheeler (Northfield)   04/19/07
Rep. Jane Wood (Laconia) 
 

DODD...11
Rep. Mike Brunelle (Manchester) 06/11/07
Rep. Mike Farley (Manchester) 06/11/07
Rep. Mary Stuart Gile (Concord) 07/20/07
Rep. Marcia Moody (New Market)  09/07/07
Rep. Catherine Mulholland (Grafton)  reported 09/20/07
Rep. Maureen Nagle (Manchester) 06/11/07
Rep. Mike O'Brien (Nashua) 06/11/07
Rep. Emma Rous (Durham) 07/05/07
Rep. Sandra Smith (Manchester) 06/11/07
Rep. Dan Sullivan (Manchester) 06/11/07
Rep. Frank Sullivan (Manchester) 06/11/07
 

 EDWARDS...35 (3 Senators/32 Representatives)  10/02/07
Senate Majority Leader Joe Foster (Nashua)
Senate Deputy Majority Leader Peter Burling (Cornish)
Senate Deputy Democratic Whip David Gottesman (Nashua)

Deputy House Speaker Rep. Linda Foster (Mont Vernon)
Rep. Jennifer Marie Brown (Dover)
Rep. Don Brueggeman (Concord)
Rep. Timothy Butterworth (Chesterfield)
Rep. Jackie Cali-Pitts (Portsmouth)
Rep. Claudia Chase (Francestown)
Rep. Frank Davis (Pembroke)
Rep. Judith Day (North Hampton)
Rep. Marlene DeChane (Barrington)
Rep. Steve Destefano (Bow)

Rep. Timothy J. Dunn (Keene)
Rep. Peter Espiefs (Keene)
Rep. David Essex (Antrim)
Rep. Patrick Garrity (Manchester)
Rep. Vincent Greco (Pembroke)
Rep. Suzanne Harvey (Nashua)
Rep. John Kelley (Nashua)
Rep. Carolyn Lisle (Nashua)
Rep. Ronald J. Mack (Hancock)
Rep. Susan Nord (Candia)

Rep. Sharon Nordgren (Hanover)
Rep. Jessie Osborne (Concord)
Rep. James Phinizy (Acworth)
Rep. Gary Richardson (Hopkinton)
Rep. Timothy Robertson (Keene)
Rep. Robert Srnec (Milton)
Rep. Rob Theberge (Berlin)
Rep. Frank Tupper (Canterbury)
Rep. Dennis Vachon (Northwood)
Rep. Janet Wall (Madbury)**

Rep Robert J. Watson (Rochester)
Rep. Chuck Weed (Keene)

Rep. Joe Miller, M.D. (Durham)  on April 23 list; not on Sept. 18 list
 

KUCINICH...2
Rep. Barbara French (Henniker)  08/15/07
Rep. Betty Hall (Brookline)
 

OBAMA ...43 (3 Senators/40 Representatives)
Sen. Jackie Cilley (Barrington) 07/31/07 
Sen. Martha Fuller Clark of Portsmouth  (announced as a co-chair May 14, 2007)
Sen. Harold Janeway (Webster) 05/10/07

Rep. Dennis Abbott (Newmarket) 10/17/07 
Rep. Susan Almy (Grafton) 05/24/07
Rep. Beth Arsenault (Laconia)  11/20/07
Rep. Deborah Billian (Rochester) 03/29/07
Rep. Liz Blanchard (Penacook)  07/05/07
Rep. David Borden of Newcastle
Rep. C. Pennington "Penn" Brown (Epping)   03/29/07
Rep. Ed Butler (Hart’s Location) 08/09/07
Rep. Bernie Cameron of Hart's Location

Rep. Jennifer Daler (Temple)   05/10/07
Rep. Tom Donovan (Claremont) 09/25/07
Rep. Eileen Flockhart (Exeter)  10/17/07
Rep. Randy Foose of New London
Rep. John Henson (Exeter)  10/17/07
Rep. Sarah Hutz (Dover)  10/17/07
Rep. Harold Janeway of Webster 
Rep. Jane Kelley (Hampton) 05/10/07
Rep. Sally Kelly (Chichester) 03/29/07
Rep. Jim Kennedy (Exeter)   03/29/07

Rep. Wayne King of Rumney
Rep. Nickolas Levasseur (Manchester)   08/09/07
Rep. Sid Lovett (Holderness) 03/29/07
Rep. Jesse Martineau (Manchester) 10/17/07
Rep. Linda McCarthy of Derry
Rep. Paul McEachern of Portsmouth 
Rep. Shawn Mickelonis (Rochester) 05/10/07
Rep. Bonnie Mitchell (Jaffrey) 05/10/07
Rep. Gail Morrison (Sanbornton) 11/20/07
Rep. Kay Oppenheimer (Strafford) 05/10/07

Rep. Maggie Porter (Merrimack) 08/09/07
Rep. Jim Powers (Portsmouth) 03/29/07
Rep. Judith Reever of Laconia 09/25/07
Rep. Kris Roberts (Keene)  09/13/07
Rep. Cindy Rosenwald (Nashua) 09/25/07
Rep. Tara Sad (Walpole) 08/09/07
Rep. Gil Shattuck of Hillsboro 
Rep. Carla Skinder (Cornish) 05/10/07
Rep. Nancy Warren (Rochester) 03/29/07
Rep. Lucy Weber (Walpole) 08/09/07
 

RICHARDSON...13
Rep. Jane Beaulieu (Manchester)   08/02/07
Rep. Eileen Ehlers (Hooksett)   05/17/07 
Rep. Armand Forest (Manchester)   05/17/07 
Rep. Dana Hilliard (Somersworth)   05/17/07 
Rep. Susan Kepner (Hampton)   08/20/07
Rep. Daniel McKenna (Derry)
Rep. Scott Merrick (Lancaster)   05/17/07 
Rep. Lily Mesa (Manchester)   06/13/07
Rep. Steve Spratt (Greenville)   05/17/07 
Rep. John Knowles (Hudson)   05/17/07 
Rep. Mary Ann Knowles (Hudson)   05/17/07 
Rep. Tara Reardon (Concord)   05/17/07 
Rep. Joel Winters (Nashua)   08/02/07

R E P U B L I C A N S
GIULIANI...8 Representatives
House Deputy Republican Leader David Hess (Hooksett)  11/26/07
House Republican Whip Stephen Stepanek (Amherst)  10/28/07
Rep. Carolyn Brown (North Conway)   04/26/07
Rep. Russell Day (Goffstown) 04/26/07
Rep. Susan Emerson (Rindge) 04/26/07
Rep. Frank Emiro (Londonderry) 04/26/07
Rep. Roger Wells (Hampstead) 04/26/07
 

HUCKABEE ...11 (1 Senator/10 Representatives)
Sen. Bob Clegg (Hudson) 04/20/07

Rep. Jason Bedrick (Windham) 08/22/07
Rep. Julie Brown (Rochester) 10/18/07
Rep. Dan Dumaine (Auburn) 08/22/07
Rep. Nancy Elliott (Merrimack) 
Rep. Frank Emiro (Londonderry) 08/22/07
Rep. Ryan Hansen (Milford) 08/22/07
Rep. Lee Quandt (Exeter)
Rep. Matt Quandt (Exeter)
Rep. Sandra Reeves (Manchester) 04/20/07
Rep. Connie Soucy (Manchester)   08/22/07
 

HUNTER
 

McCAIN...23 (4 Senators/19 Representatives)
Sen. Jack Barnes (Raymond)   08/22/07
Sen. Peter Bragdon (Milford)   08/22/07
Sen. Mike Downing (Salem)   03/01/07
Sen. John Gallus (Berlin)  01/31/07

Rep. Don Buxton (Brentwood)  06/25/07
Rep. Sharon Carson (Londonderry)  03/01/07
Rep. Gene Chandler (Bartlett)   06/22/07
Rep. Gene Charron (Chester)   03/01/07
Rep. Bob Fesh (Derry)   03/01/07
Rep. John Flanders (Kingston)  03/01/07
Rep. John Gleason (Derry)   03/01/07
Rep. Rip Holden (Goffstown)   06/22/07
Rep. Karen Hutchinson (Londonderry)   03/01/07
Rep. Fred King Sr. (Colebrook)  01/31/07

Rep. Maureen Mooney (Merrimack)   06/22/07
Rep. Benjamin Moore (Seabrook)   03/01/07
Rep. Andy Peterson (Peterborough)   06/22/07
Rep. Bill Remick (Lancaster)   01/31/07
Rep. Elisabeth Sanders (Danville)  03/01/07
Rep. Nancy Stiles (Hampton)  03/01/07
Rep. Eric Stohl (Colebrook)   01/31/07
Rep. John Tholl, Jr. (Whitefield)   01/31/07
Rep. Kevin Waterhouse (Windham)   03/01/07

former suppporter:
Rep. D.J. Bettencourt (Salem)  03/01/07
Withdrew support on June 27, 2007.  See: Philip Elliott.  "Lawmaker bails on McCain."  The Associated Press.  June 28, 2007.

See also: Jan. 7, 2008 press release

 PAUL
Rep. Paul Ingbretson (Pike) 09/18/07
 

ROMNEY...40 (1 Senator/39 Representatives)
Sen. Bob Letourneau (Derry) 05/17/07

House Minority Leader Michael Whalley (Alton)   12/21/07 
Rep. Betsey Patten (Moultonborough)   03/01/07
Rep. Beverly Rodeschin (Newport)   03/01/07
see release
 
 

former candidates
TANCREDO
Rep. Daniel Itse (Fremont) 

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